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new Vista UI buton types
  1. #1


    sbarlea@gmail.com Guest

    new Vista UI buton types

    The standard Vista interface has some new button types, like the
    special toolbar that replaces the old menus in Windows Explorer, the
    dropdown buttons in Windows Media player and other standard
    applications (buttons with a little arrow that spawn a menu when
    clicked), etc.

    The question is: how can we use these in a managed environment? I did
    not find any info on MSDN about these controls except the UI Guidelines
    and those offer no advice on how to create such buttons.

    Tanx a lot for your time!




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  2. #2


    Douglas Stockwell Guest

    Re: new Vista UI buton types

    Are these really "standard". They aren't used all that consistently across
    different applications. From a quick skim of the UI Guidelines I think these
    are "standard concepts", not controls.

    They do not exist as stand-alone controls in Windows Presentation
    Foundation. However, given Control Templates and Styles, it is relatively
    trivial to implement the look and feel of these concepts.

    - Doug

    <sbarlea@gmail.com> wrote in message
    news:1159167999.585041.99280@d34g2000cwd.googlegroups.com...
    > The standard Vista interface has some new button types, like the
    > special toolbar that replaces the old menus in Windows Explorer, the
    > dropdown buttons in Windows Media player and other standard
    > applications (buttons with a little arrow that spawn a menu when
    > clicked), etc.
    >
    > The question is: how can we use these in a managed environment? I did
    > not find any info on MSDN about these controls except the UI Guidelines
    > and those offer no advice on how to create such buttons.
    >
    > Tanx a lot for your time!
    >



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